Revelation, 19
January 1841 [D&C 124]

Verily thus
saith the Lord unto you my Servant
Joseph
Smith, I am well pleased with your offering; and acknowledgements
which you have made; for unto this end have I raised you up, that I
might shew forth my wisdom through the weak things of the earth.

Your prayers
are acceptable before me, and in answer to them, I say unto you, that you
are now called, immediately to make a solemn proclamation of my gospel and
of this stake, which I have planted to be a corner stone of Zion, which
shall be polished with that refinement which is after the similitude
of a palace—This proclamation shall be made to all the kings
of the world, to the four corners thereof; to the Honorable
President Elect,
and the high minded Governors of the nation in which you live, and to all
the nations of the earth, scattered abroad. Let it be written in the
spirit of meekness and by the power of the holy ghost, which shall be
in you, at the time of the writing of the same; for it shall be given you
by the holy ghost to know my will concerning those Kings and Authorities,
even what shall befall them in a time to come. For behold I am about
to call upon them to give heed to the light and
glory of Zion, for the set time has come, to favor her.

Call ye,
therefore, upon them with loud proclamation and with your testimony,
fearing them not, for they are as grass, and all their glory as the flower
thereof, which soon falleth away; that they may be left also without
excuse, and that I may visit them in the day of visitation when I
shall unveil the face of my covering, to appoint the portion of the
oppressor, among hypocrites, where there is gnashing of teeth; if they
reject my servants, and my testimony, which I have revealed unto them. And
again, I will visit and soften their hearts— many of them for your
good, that ye may find grace in their eyes, that they may come to the
light of truth, and the gentiles to the exaltation or lifting up of Zion;
for the day of my visitation cometh speedily, in an hour when you think
not of; and where shall be the safety of my people? and
[p. 3]

A revelation given to
Joseph
Smith, January 19th. 1841

Verily thus
saith the Lord unto you my Servant
Joseph
Smith, I am well pleased with your offering; and acknowledgements
which you have made; for unto this end have I raised you up, that I
might shew forth my wisdom through the weak things of the earth.

Your prayers
are acceptable before me, and in answer to them, I say unto you, that you
are now called, immediately to make a solemn proclamation of my gospel and
of this stake, which I have planted to be a corner stone of Zion, which
shall be polished with that refinement which is after the similitude
of a palace—This proclamation shall be made to all the kings
of the world, to the four corners thereof; to the Honorable
President Elect,
and the high minded Governors of the nation in which you live, and to all
the nations of the earth, scattered abroad. Let it be written in the
spirit of meekness and by the power of the holy ghost, which shall be
in you, at the time of the writing of the same; for it shall be given you
by the holy ghost to know my will concerning those Kings and Authorities,
even what shall befall them in a time to come. For behold I am about
to call upon them to give heed to the light of and
glory of Zion, for the set time has come, to favor her.

Call ye,
therefore, upon them with loud proclamation and with your testimony,
fearing them not, for they are as grass, and all their glory as the flower
thereof, which soon falleth away; that they may be left also without
excuse, and that I may visit them in the day of visitation when I
shall unveil the face of my covering, to appoint the portion of the
oppressor, among hypocrites, where there is gnashing of teeth; if they
reject my servants, and my testimony, which I have revealed unto them. And
again, I will visit and soften their hearts— many of them for your
good, that ye may find grace in their eyes, that they may come to the
light of truth, and the gentiles to the exaltation or lifting up of Zion;
for the day of my visitation cometh speedily, in an hour when you think
not of; and where shall be the safety of my people? and
[p. 3]

Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, LDS church purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas. Served as church headquarters, 1839...

, IL,
19 Jan. 1841; in Book of the Law of the
Lord, pp. 3–15; handwriting of
Robert B. Thompson

1 Oct. 1811–27 Aug. 1841. Clerk, editor. Born in Great Driffield, Yorkshire, England. Member of Methodist church. Immigrated to Upper Canada, 1834. Baptized into LDS church by Parley P. Pratt, May 1836, in Upper Canada. Ordained an elder by John Taylor, 22...